Close to the Floor

That's where Richard and I slept last night. We acted on Richard's spontaneous suggestion that we spend the night in Fayette at Bryan's cabin, so we loaded up some firewood, our sleeping bags and pillows, fiddles, candles and a lantern (Let me tell you 'bout a story of a man named Jed...) and off we went... at 9:00pm. Not a lot of planning went into this expedition but somehow we got there with more than enough stuff (big surprise, we always seem to have plenty of extra stuff, haha). The roads were really icy on the way out there, which we found out unexpectedly but uneventfully. Others were not so lucky, we passed a tow truck pulling a vehicle out of the ditch, glad we were going slow! (See previous post for explanation on why we're being conscientious drivers).
Photograph taken this morning of the cabin is being really slow to upload so I may have to try that later. Richard and I did have a fun little getaway though, and realized we need to do that more! It reminded us of our early days together last year when we spontaneously decided we wanted to camp out in the Arboretum. Definitely a better idea to have hard cover in the winter, we did NOT wake up with frost on our sleeping bags this morning :) Temperature outside last night was around 36 F or lower, and this morning around 40 F (inside and out). The wood stove at Bryan's is a behemoth of a cookstove, a Magee something or other with a hot water reservoir on the side. Very nice stove, but I had a hard time getting it to stop smoking, I'm not familiar with the dampers etc. It did throw off some heat once we got it going last night though, and we were happy for that.
Our sleeping bags were warm, the air mattress was comfortable. We brought along some chairs, and last night once the fire was going, we had a really good time playing as many fiddle tunes as we could remember off the top of our heads. This was one of our best nights together in a while. We have a good time dancing, playing music, and in general just hanging out together but there's something to be said for living without television, stereos, telephones, computers, etc. There we were, just us and our fiddles and the quiet of the night.
This morning we had coffee and breakfast with mom and dad, another unexpected treat that just added to our great adventure. Today? Back to life and chores, but much lighter in spirit.